Alumni News
The Allen School’s Alumni News features stories and updates that celebrate the achievements and experiences of our alumni.
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June 10, 2025 -
Allen School News
The UW recognized the team behind the redesigned introduction to programming course series — lecturer Kasey Champion and teaching professors Elba Garza, Miya Natsuhara, Hunter Schafer and Brett Wortzman — as part of the 2025 Awards of Excellence, one of the University’s highest honors.
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June 4, 2025 -
Allen School News
Sharma (Ph.D., ‘24) won the 2024 award from the Association for Computing Machinery for leveraging AI to make high-quality mental health support more accessible, and Min (Ph.D., ‘24) received an honorable mention for developing a new class of efficient and flexible language models.
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May 14, 2025 -
Allen School News
Armon Dadgar (B.S., ‘11) co-founded the high-flying cloud company HashiCorp inspired by an undergraduate research project. Now he and partner Joshua Kalla hope to sow the seeds of the next HashiCorp with a new professorship and support for a new generation of innovators and entrepreneurs.
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April 5, 2025 -
Simons Insttute
Tang, who earned her Ph.D. as a member of the Allen School’s Theory group, received the 2025 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize for her work on classical analogs of quantum algorithms for machine learning and linear algebra, and quantum machine learning on quantum data.
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March 31, 2025 -
Oregon Public Broadcasting
The lived experiences of people with disabilities are often ignored in the development of new technologies, but that’s not the case with the Allen School’s ADA project. Community researcher Jonathan Ko joined recent Ph.D. alum Amal Nanavati to discuss their collaboration.
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December 1, 2024 -
UWAA Viewpoint Magazine
The UW Alumni Association celebrated Anokwa for his ongoing work on the Open Data Kit (ODK), an open-source platform for collecting data in low-resource settings to support public health, global development, environmental conservation and more.
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October 1, 2024 -
MacArthur Foundation
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation honored the Allen School alum with a "genius grant" for her work on technology interventions to address the needs of overlooked populations.
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June 2, 2024 -
The Conversation
Allen School postdoc Esther Jang (Ph.D., ‘24) and co-authors describe how the Community Network Roadmap can help non-experts design, create and sustain a community-run broadband network to overcome systemic barriers to internet access.
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July 20, 2023 -
Allen School News
A chance encounter helped Paul Beame, Paris Koutris (Ph.D., ‘15) and Dan Suciu create the award-winning MPC model that aids scientists in understanding some of the deeper nuances surrounding big data management.